John Barclay (poet)

John Barclay ( born January 28, 1582 in Pont- à -Mousson; † August 21, 1621 in Rome) was a Scottish poet and satirist who wrote in Latin.

The son of the Scottish legal scholar William Barclay († 1605), and a French studied at the Jesuit college of Pont-à- Mousson, went with his father in 1603 to England, where he I drew the attention of Jacob to himself, then lived in Angers and Paris, 1606 -1616 in England, in 1618 went to Rome and died there on August 12, 1621st

His main work is " Argenis ," a romantic manners mirror of the time, especially the French court (Paris 1621 and often; most of Elzevier, Leiden 1630; later Nuremberg from 1769 to 1776; German translation Argenis of Martin Opitz, Amsterdam 1644, and later as Argenide by Johann Christian Ludwig hook, Berlin 1794).

With its written in classical Latin novel Euphormionis Lusinii Satiricon he turned against the Jesuits. Further works are Apologli Euphormionis (London 1610) and the long used as a textbook characteristics of European nations Icon animorum.

Works

• Argenis, Paris 1621 ( e- text after the first edition, the digitized output Leiden 1630)
• Euphormionis Lusinini Satiricon, pars prima London 1603
• Euphormionis Lusinini Satiricon, pars secunda, Paris 1603 ( digitized output of the Paris 1607)
• Icon sive descriptio animorum quinque praecipuarum nationum in Europe, London 1614 ( digitized output in 1684, e- text )
• Johann Barclaÿens Argenis German made ​​by Martin Opitz. Breslau 1626 ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )